12:
THE
HONGKONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
HONGKONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTE
PEAK HOTEL
AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTELI
HOTELS
LIMITED.
in association with the Grand Hotel Des Wagons Lits, Peking.
Hotel SAVOY
The Newest and Finest Hostelry in THE Colony
Convenient... Cosmopolitan
KOWLOON HOTEL
KOWLOON.
Under the Personal Supervision and Attention of
Phone Nos.
K. 609 & K. 809.
Mr. & Mrs. H. J. WHITE, Cables "KowLOTEL " Hongkong,
PALACE HOTEL.
Tel Bowloan No 3.
Tri Address **Palace.**
A Fient Class Isidential, and Tourist Hotel with all the Con vui nees of a Home, Under Entirely European Management. Coay Lounge and Billiard Satoon. Three minutes from Ferry. Families specially es ered for. Moderate term.
EUROPE
Men, J. H. Oxberry.
Propri trees.
HOTEL
"Renowned by Recommendation"
DANCING: After Dinner every Tuesday,
MUSIC:
GRILL:
every
Thursday and Saturday.
On the VERANDAI Saturday from 12 noon to 1.30 p.m. and every Tuesday, Thurs- day and Saturday from 7.30 to 8.30 p.m.
Telephone, 5341 (8 lines) Cables "EUROPE" Singapore.
THE EUROPE HOTEL Ltd.
Arthur E. Odell Managing Director.
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL-PENANG
4......
"MALAYA'S NICEST HOTEL”, With beautiful private lawns to the Se
MODERN THROUGHOUT
Dinner-dance twice weekly
RUNNYMEDE HOTEL LTD. George Goldsuck.
CABLES."RUNNYMEDE."
To-day to Saturday.
Manager.
at 2.30, 5.30, 7.20, & 9.20
BEAU SABREUR
A big, thrilling, colourfal melodrama of the French Foreign Legion. Wild adventure, delightful romance in the face of almost - certain deathl
AT
THE
MAJESTIC
NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON.
Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1930.
INDIAN SITUATION BROADCASTING IN PRINCE ON WAY
IMPROVES.
AMERICANS INJURED IN CALCUTTA RIOT.
STRIKE IN KARACHI.
Karuchi, Apr. 16.
As a sequel to the arrest of six Congress leaders, the deckers and sweepers here have gone on strike.
MALAYA.
SCHEME TO COVER THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
SHORT WAVE STATION FOR
KUALA LUMPUR.
RECENT PROGRESS.
The police fired nine shots at a riotous. mob outside the City Ma- gistrate's Court this afternoon. As a result of this seven people were seriusly injured. In addition one Kimia Lumpur, Apr. 2. man was killed and 26 injured when
If proposals which are now lathis (cudgels) were used.
before the Federal Government The injured were taken to hospi-are accepted. broadcasting on a tal where two are in a precarious much more ambitious scale than condition. The police were aided has yet been attempted in by Indian troops and arrested the Malaya will become practicable. ringleaders of the demonstration.
The experiments made so far The situation is now quieter.
have been limited in their range. Several years ago the Singapure Amateur Wireless Society broad- easted regularly for a time, using an aircraft set lent to them by the Marconi Company, but that experiment. W÷ carried aut entirely by the moribers at their own expense.
The Satyagraha camp. Swaraj Ashram, and Hindu Jati printing press have been searched, and account books, tiags and signbeards seized.
A Navsari report says Mahadev Desai has arrived to confer with Gandhi. The report of the form- er's arrest presumably arose ow- ing to his sudden disappearance from Ahmedabad. --Reuter..
Calcutta Now (Quiet.
Calcutta. Apr. 16.
Amateur Service.
The brandestine service which the Kuala Lumpur Amateur Wire less Society has inaugurated, with the co-operation of the Posts and Telegraphs Department, is a more
powerful plant is being used and that plant is owned and operated by the Government,
HOMEWARD."
UNDERTAKES A 1,000-MILE AIR TRIP.
KHARTOUM TO CAIRO.
London, Apr. 16.
The Prince of Wales, who is due to arrive in London about April 28th from his African tour, left Khartoum by air to-day for Caire, about 1,000 miles away.
Accompanying the plane in which the Prince travelled were nine others of the Royal Air Force A start was made about six o'clock in the morning, and after four hours the ten machines rentad Atharabara.
He was oft
The Prince alighted near thr railway and breakfasted with the General Manager of the Railway! in a Pulman car. again in about forty minutes, and new to Wadi Halfa, on the Nile. This was reached at about noon Here His Royal Highness lunched with Mr. Jackson, Governor of the Province.
After lunch, the flight was re- surned to Assuman, which was
ched at half past four this: afternoon. The Prince will stay the night there.
to
Continuing his journey morrow, he will arrive at Cairo soon after daylight King Fund will meet him there.
Before leaving Khartoum, the Prince said he had enjoyed a resi British Wireless.
The situation here is now quiet after the earlier disturbances, but important enterprise, in that more and complete holiday in Sudan.---- || military pickets are still patrolling the disturbed areas. Two Ameri- Pans are included among those injured when mebs flung stones at Europeans who were making their wry home te last night." Nine neople were sent to hospital, includ- ing one woman. Two, including af half a kilowatt as compare/l w.man, were seriously injared.
The police made twenty arrests. nine of them on roofs of houses, where piles of brickbata were found..
Later last night a futile attack was made on one of the wards of the Presidency Hospital.
The Government wireless station! on Petaling Hill, is comparatively i a very small one, having a capacity
with the thousand kilowatts used by the giant Rugby station. but it is the largest that has yet been red for broadcasting in this country.
TWO-YEAR LOAN RECALLED.
JUDGMENT AGAINST AN ABSENT WOMAN,
In the Summary Court this moi - ning. before Mr. Justice Wood, Even so, it is primarily a tele-Assa Singh sued Rose Chan, Nol graphic set, and the modifications 214, Wanchai Road, for the sun which have been made by the gas due under a promissory nule. Over 50 people were injured wireless engineers of the Posts Plaintiff conducted his own case, yesterday's disturbances, includ- and Telegraphs Department, while and defendant was absent.
Plaintiff stated that he lent 316) ing 16 Police officers and 11 Fire-giving as good results as can be men.--Bruter.
expected from this plant under to defendant two years ago, for Malayan conditions, only offer which she signed a note for double
eflective
tele- the amount. Interest was due for phony of about fifty miles. Skil- two years, this amounting to $50 ful amateurs with good sets will doubtless get results at much greater distances than that, but for the average owner of the average set that is the limit that is accepted.
BASIS OF TRADE TREATY.
Contiuned from Page 1)
which have nevertheless not adhered to the agreement, the Soviet Union will accord reciprocity, reserving itself the right to denounce this
respect provision in
1 Buy bominion or India.
an
range
for
it
Short Wave Scheme. Some time ago in oficer of the Post and Telegraphs Department visted Java in order to study broad- sting developments there, and as
result of his observations schere has been submitted to thei Federal Government for the acquisi- tion of new apparatus which will permit of simultaneous short wave and long wave transmission from Petaling Hill.
In reply to his Lordship, plaintill said that nothing had been paid at all and he was not sure whether defendant was still in the Colony. Judgment was given for plaintiff.
JAPANESE WOUNDED.
STABBED DURING BRAWL.
AT WANCHAL
A warrant has been issued for the ariest of Selata, a Japanese, on a charge of grievously wounding a compatriot during a brawl in Lee Tung Street, Wanchai, on Tues- day night.
Right to Denounce. The agreement shall remain in force till the entry into force of a commercial Treaty subject to the right of either party to denounce it or any arrangements entered into Between the Soviet Govern- If this scheme is adopted lis-
The injured man, whose name is ment and the British Dominions Orteners-in who are already served by given as Miyamodo, was admitted. other overseas territories at six the Petaling Hill station will con- to hospital with a wound in the left tinue to be served, and all parts of breast which is supposed to have: the country outside aradius of been inflicted with a knife or dag- from 100 to 150 miles will probably ger.
months' notice.
In the annexed protocol it is stated that the contracting parties are animated by an intention to receive the short wave transmission. Sebata is alleged to have disap eliminate from their economic re- The farther away the listener-in, peared after the brawl. He is de- tations all forms of discrimination the better will the short wave ser- scribed as being between 33 to 35 and will be guided only by com-vice be received, and there will un-years of age, of medium height and mercial and financial considerations. dubtedly be no difficulty about build. At the time of the affair he They will adopt no legislative or receiving in it Java and Ceylon on was dressed in a grey Chinese coat administrative action such as would the west and Borneo and the and zhaki shorts. place the trade of the other party Philippines on the cast, in a position of inferiority to that of any other foreign country.
Granting of Credits.
above
Value to Out-Stations.
ALL-TALKING
JOSEPH M. SCHENCK
presents The Laugh Hit the Season
AT THE
THREE
LIVE GHOSTS
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20.
FROM MICHAEL ARLEN'S FAMOUS NOVEL
JOHN
GRETA
GILBERT GARBO
in
A Woman of Affair
WORLD
Mr. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon morning, dis- It should be added, however, Magistracy this
AT THE who was ac- that the main constituency which charged a Chinese In accordance with the
the improved broadcasting station cused of being concerned in the principle, trade between Britain and at Kuala Lumpur will serve kidnapping of a small boy. A man Bussia shall be eligible for consi- assuming that it is approved-will and a woman were found attempt- deration on the same basis as trade be neither the surrounding coun- ing to cross the border with the between Britain and other foreign tries nor the principal towns of lad and on appearing before the countries in connexion with any Malaya, but rather the out-stations Court were each given a year's im- legislative or administrative mea-and isolated residents of this prisonment. The defendant was sures taken by the British Gov- country.
to facilitate such trade.
alleged to have been with them, but owing to the absence of definité identification he was given his dia charge.
ernment for the granting of credits For a Kuala Lumpur or Singa- The signature of the agreement Fore resident to "tune in" to dance music from the Selangor Club may was accompanied by a declaration not be an exciting experience, but by Mr. Henderson that the Union of
on a remote rubber estate that mu- South Africa and the Irish Freeeic may be very welcome indeed. State were excluded from the pro- With a more powerful plant, of try. It comes through at about visions relating to the Dominions. course, the Kuala Lumpur Wire- six o'clock in the morning, and at
-British Wireless,
FORMER KOWLOON SCHOOLBOY.
one that can be heard in this coun-
less Society will be encouraged to certain times of the year between arrange more ambitious progrant-seven-thirty and eight-thirty at mes, and such events as the opening night, but it is unreliable, both of the Agri-Horticultural Show by because the reception is of vary Sir Cecil Clementi this month willing strength and because the always command an interested au-station is not operated primarily for entertainment, but for experi- dience,
mental purposes. Daventry (England) has never been heard Manila provides attractive and a good set, specially built for the varied programmes, especially on News has just been received in tropies, and if he is sufficiently Sunday evenings, and anyone who the Colony of a former Central interested to learn something wants to bear Siamese music can British School boy, John Bryson, about its mysteries, there are re-switch on to Bangkok. Reception whose progress at his Home school wards awaiting him in the ether from Calcutta is usually unsatis- was exceptional.
above Malaya. The very excellent factory.
DOING EXCELLENTLY AT HOME.
Thrills for Listeners-In.
If the listener-in be possessed of farther East than Aden.
way
THURSDAY TO SATURDAY At 2.30 & 7.15 Interpreter At 5.15 & 9.20.Orchestra
Davies Haines SHOW PEOPLE
its
AT THE
Ife sat for the Preliminary Ex-orchestras maintained by our Оде more thrill awaits tha amination, Chartered Accountants, music-loving Dutch neighbours explorer in the Malayan heavens, En November last year, and the Lon are broadcasted regularly from and that is the beam service of don Matriculation Examination last Bandoeng and Sourabaya and are the Imperial Communications January, and was successful in both, clearly received here. Then there Company which passes direct- He is now articled to a firm of is the powerful Huizen station inly over the Peninsula on Chartered Accountants in London. Holland, whose announeer
from England to Aus- Last year he received the Conduct addresses the world in five tralia and vice versa. But as that Prize of his School, Framlingham languages, and whose musical service is conducted at the rate College, this prize being given to programmes can be heard satis of 260 words a minute in Morse, the boy whose character had the factorily in Malaya.
the listener-in will gain nothing most beneficial ellect Dn the The Marconi experimental
action the latest advance In scholars. He was House, Captain, station at Chelmsford is the only more than the thrill of hearing in and Captain of football, cricket and English station broadcasting on a twentieth century communication.
short wave, and therefore the only Straits Times.
hockey.
STAR
TWO GREAT STARS
1000 LAUGHS
TO-DAY & SATURDAY
At 5.30 ONLY
THE SALISBURY Go. Presents SO THIS IS LOVE”A